Network model-based analysis of the goals, targets and indicators of sustainable development for strategic environmental assessment
| Autor: | Viktor Sebestyén, János Abonyi, Ákos Rédey, Miklós Bulla |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Sustainable development
Strategic planning Conservation of Natural Resources Decision support system Environmental Engineering Process management Ecology Computer science 0208 environmental biotechnology 02 engineering and technology General Medicine Sustainable Development 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law 01 natural sciences Interconnectedness Environmental Policy 020801 environmental engineering Sustainability Environmental impact assessment Strategic environmental assessment Centrality Goals Waste Management and Disposal 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Environmental Management. 238:126-135 |
| ISSN: | 0301-4797 |
| Popis: | Strategic environmental assessment is a decision support technique that evaluates policies, plans and programs in addition to identifying the most appropriate interventions in different scenarios. This work develops a network-based model to study interlinked ecological, economic, environmental and social problems to highlight the synergies between policies, plans, and programs in environmental strategic planning. Our primary goal is to propose a methodology for the data-driven verification and extension of expert knowledge concerning the interconnectedness of the sustainable development goals and their related targets. A multilayer network model based on the time-series indicators of the World Bank open data over the last 55 years was assembled. The results illustrate that by providing an objective and data-driven view of the correlated variables of the World Bank, the proposed layered multipartite network model highlights the previously not discussed interconnections, node centrality measures evaluate the importance of the targets, and network community detection algorithms reveal their strongly connected groups. The results confirm that the proposed methodology can serve as a data-driven decision support tool for the preparation and monitoring of long-term environmental policies. The developed new data-driven network model enables multi-level analysis of the sustainability (goals, targets, indicators) and will make it possible to plan long-term environmental strategic planning. Through relationships among indicators, relationships among targets and goals can be modelled. The results show that sustainable development goals are strongly interconnected, while the 5th goal (gender equality) is linked mostly to 17th (partnerships for the goals) goal. The analysis has also highlighted the importance of the 4th (quality education). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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